Hispanic women typically have fewer incidences of breast cancer when compared to non-Hispanic white women; however, when they are diagnosed with breast cancer, it is usually an aggressive form or in the advanced stages of disease. Now, researchers have found a link among Hispanic and non-Hispanic black women when it comes to breast cancer and obesity.

HHL contributor Dr. Jeffrey Weitzel recently sat down with Glenn Llopis, founder and CEO of Center for Hispanic Leadership, to give us an update on his research with breast cancer in the Latina community.

The link between obesity and an increased risk for breast cancer may vary by ethnicity and race, suggest study results presented at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, in San Diego in 2012, by Marilyn L. Kwan, Ph.D., a research scientist in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. 

The woman caller named Rosario said she was anxious. She had lumps on her breast. Could we help her get a mammogram?

In August 2004, my high school and college friend, Lilly Lorenzo-Luaces, a child psychologist who lives in Miami with her fiancee, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Almost 11 years later, she is cancer free. I sat down with her to discuss her story.